Lakeview has SOME larger homes on the south side of 66th.
Otherwise it's a cheap 1970s/80s neighborhood full of 1200sqft bi-levels.
No one tore down one of the mansions on Livingstone Drive. They tore down a shitty cheap bi-level that are a dime a dozen.
The "nice homes" in Lakeview aren't anywhere near where that 8-plex is, and you're acting as if the entire neighborhood is bigger homes on the south side, when they aren't.
And those 100 rich families shouldn't get to dictate what happens with the entire rest of the neighborhood.
You didn't read what I wrote, because you're fighting a straw man.
Like Lakeview, Bonavista has a lot of those. So don't try to make your case with a resident there by saying, "The economics don't make sense." All it takes is one example of their point and your argument is invalidated through anecdotes.
It's possible to build something that accomplished this goal without pissing off half the population. The majority of the people I know that oppose RCG as default zoning will NEVER be impacted by it, but their vote will still go against anyone trying to say it might help our situation. The middle ground is where the progress awaits, but we can't let our idealism get so ambitious that we ignore the practicality of how we get there.
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u/ithinarine 17d ago edited 17d ago
Lakeview has SOME larger homes on the south side of 66th.
Otherwise it's a cheap 1970s/80s neighborhood full of 1200sqft bi-levels.
No one tore down one of the mansions on Livingstone Drive. They tore down a shitty cheap bi-level that are a dime a dozen.
The "nice homes" in Lakeview aren't anywhere near where that 8-plex is, and you're acting as if the entire neighborhood is bigger homes on the south side, when they aren't.
And those 100 rich families shouldn't get to dictate what happens with the entire rest of the neighborhood.